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ASpringies - An interactive mass and spring simulator
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Copyright (c) 1994 by Torsten Klein
Version 1.0
first public release
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Please read these excerpts of ASpringies' documentation before you
download ASpringies or start it the first time!
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1. What is it?
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ASpringies is a simulator which allows you to interactively create
and edit a system of masses and springs. The parameters of the masses
and springs (such as mass elasticity and spring K) as well as those of
the surrounding system (such as air viscosity and gravity) can be
changed. These systems can be loaded and saved into a file.
I guess you could use ASpringies for real work, but it's really
intended to be a time waster.
ASpringies is the Amiga port of the program 'xspringies' by Douglas
DeCarlo.
2. Requirements
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Kickstart V37 (2.0) or above, of course
If you want to use the screen mode requester, you must at least have
asl.library V38 of Workbench 2.1.
MUI (Magic User Interface, version 2.2 or above(1))
ASpringies' user interface is built upon MUI; since it is no longer
allowed to distribute parts of MUI, you have to get and install it
yourself. Please read the file 'ReadMe.mui' that came with ASpringies
on how to obtain it.
A Floting Point Coprocessor (FPU), or standard 68040 and above
The differential equation solver of ASpringies does LOADS of number
crunching. Without such a beast, ASpringies won't be able to perform
animation at a reasonable speed. You may recompile the code for
non-FPU systems, but don't expect much fun (2).
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1 ASpringies only makes use of features that were present in the
first public release of MUI, but a recompilation under V2.2 now requires
the user to have version 2.2 installed, too.
2 On my A4000/40, ASpringies spends about 80% of its cpu time in
numerics, 15% are used for graphics rendering. I'd really love to see
it on a 68060...
3. Installation
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Just drag ASpringies' drawer icon anywhere you like. Sorry for not
supplying an Installer script. :-)
4. Caveats
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ASpringies' way of double buffering the animation screen isn't 100%
system compliant. It works on any Amiga with the OLD, ECS or AGA
chipset, but owners of additional graphics hardware should be careful.
Set your graphics board to the most compatible intuition emulation
or switch it to bypass mode.
5. Legal Stuff
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You may use ASpringies for a period of 3 (THREE) days, any usage of
it after this period is STRICTLY FORBIDDEN, you are an outlaw and have
to FEEL GUILTY if you continue using ASpringies after this period. To
register ASpringies, send AT LEAST 50 Bucks to blah blablah
blahblabla...
STOP! NO WAY! Just kidding! ASpringies is FREE SOFTWARE (see below).
I really put a lot of work in it, this is my contribution to the
Amiga's user community.
Disclaimer
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ASpringies - An interactive mass and spring simulator
This is the Amiga port of the program 'xspringies' by Douglas DeCarlo.
Copyright of the Amiga port ©1994 by Torsten Klein.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 1, or (at your option)
any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
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